O'Keefe's best friend questions his Test recall

One of Steve O'Keefe's best friends has questioned whether the left-arm spinner deserved a Test recall after his alcohol-fuelled indiscretion this year.

Cricket's shift in fast bowler injury prevention

Cricket Australia has changed the emphasis of its fast bowling policy in a bid to reduce the number of back stress fractures among future quicks.

Warner retires hurt after being hit in neck by bouncer

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Test vice-captain David Warner has sent a scare through the Australian camp after being felled by a bouncer in an intra-squad match in Darwin on Tuesday.

Cricket pay war nearing end after marathon talks

The industrial war that has paralysed Australian cricket is all but over with the game's warring parties set to strike a new pay deal that would lift the game out of crisis.

Meet the man keeping Cricket Australia at bay in pay war

The traits that made Nicholson such a valued and respected member of the Melbourne's teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s are now proving a major thorn in Cricket Australia's side.

Players blindsided by CA's calls for arbitration

Australia's cricketers have been blindsided by an extraordinary proposal from Cricket Australia which could see players re-employed next week and save the Ashes and the upcoming tour of Bangladesh.

'Lack of respect': Player-board relations set back 40 years

Fears relations between players and Cricket Australia have plunged to lowest point since World Series Cricket.

Cricketers hit back at Peever comments

Australia's players have hit back at Cricket Australia chairman David Peever's angry comments as the game's warring parties start the long road to resolving the ugly pay dispute.

Taylor calls for compromise to end pay war

Cricket Australia director Mark Taylor has called on both sides in the bitter pay war to reach a compromise as a former Test great declared the ongoing dispute as a "plague on both their houses".